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Don’t drink the startup Kool-Aid – just find a problem and try to solve it

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Re: Don’t drink the startup Kool-Aid – just find a problem and try to solve it

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Anyone else tired of all these entrepreneur/startup blogs and articles? It's a bubble in itself. Now I skip past them like I skip tabloid and gossip "articles".

You have to understand, before it was called "Hacker News", this was "Startup News". A heavy focus on startup culture and entrepreneurship is a part of the DNA of this site. I expect it will always be that way. Complaining about startup / entrepreneur articles here is almost akin to getting in the water and then complaining that you got wet.

I'm talking about all these Tony Robbins wannabes and content companies using startup/entrepreneurship as an angle.

Useful voices: 37signals folks, Eris Reiss, HBR, anyone here, etc.

Not useful voices: Inc.com, Forbes.com, Random dude running on investment alone, linkbait like " for ".

Re: Don’t drink the startup Kool-Aid – just find a problem and try to solve it

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post #28
post #5

Anyone else tired of all these entrepreneur/startup blogs and articles? It's a bubble in itself. Now I skip past them like I skip tabloid and gossip "articles".

Hacker News guideline clearly asks articles and comments to provide intellectual value, even if the subject isn't programming or hacking. Since most hackers ultimately want to get a sense of purpose out of their skill and want to create a business around their ideas and products, I guess articles on entrepreneurship are of value. Articles that are worthless fade out pretty fast anyway...

See my clarification http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4453460
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